It is often necessary to estimate the potential ground surface settlement caused by underground infrastructure projects involving tunnels an...

I created another simple web application to estimate the soil water retention curve from basic particle size distribution data. I used the e...

My knowledge of Python (the programming language) is not extensive. I have used it a few times to streamline some of my research activities ...

This post is inspired by one of my research findings published recently . My PhD research involved the evaluation of underground corrosion f...

While computational modelling is increasingly being used in place of physical modelling in many fields of engineering, physical modelling st...

Adam's Bridge, the collection of limestone shoals between the Mannar Island of Sri Lanka, and the Pamban Island of South India has spark...

Beach Erosion is a problem faced by many countries and erosion mitigation has been traditionally done using hard engineering solutions such ...

While Android and IOS dominate the operating systems in today's smartphones, Nokia stays in the game with its innovative hardware. The i...

We know that certain animals have the ability to orient themselves and navigate using the earth's magnetic field. Unfortunately humans d...

It may sound like science fiction, but its actually a possibility that is under extensive research at the moment. The bacterium named "...

In a previous post of mine named Onion Earth I explained how the earth has a layered structure somewhat resembling an onion. The earth has ...

Graphite is a major export of Sri Lanka and is mined at two places in the country namely, Kahatagaha and Bogala. Sri Lanka is the only count...

Environmental Engineering was formerly known as Sanitation Engineering and was a subdivision of Civil Engineering. As many new engineering f...

This post is about X Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy. If the Name sounds too complicating or sounds uninteresting feel free to ignore this pos...

The crisis the Earth faces today is not a secret, almost everyone knows about it but very few take it seriously. Chances are that someone re...